Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.

What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.

The glut of information that is spayed at us on a daily basis is an important factor in the formation of our ideologies, and it's not even actually happening in front of us.

...his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

Quality requires your Presence.

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it.

It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach.

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.